Series
How Music Got Free
“Uncover the secrets behind the crime we all committed.”
DocumentaryCrime
Details the fascinating, and often funny, inside story of the technology-driven disruption that changed music during the late-90s and early-2000s. File sharing technology, combined with the insatiable demand for new music, created both the means and the motive for millions of young people to participate in outright theft – and be celebrated for it.
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Seasons & episodes
1The Crime We All Committed11 Jun 2024 · 41m · ★ 5.0A small town CD-factory worker, Dell Glover, joins forces with teen hackers to pioneer internet piracy with MP3s, shaking the music industry’s early-2000s profits and reshaping the business forever; featuring Eminem, 50 Cent, Method Man and more.
2Internet Killed the Radio Star11 Jun 2024 · 41m · ★ 5.0As album sales drop, the music industry takes legal action against fans causing a PR nightmare; the FBI launches a major investigation against internet pirates and begins cracking down.
Details
- First aired
- 11 Jun 2024
- Last aired
- 11 Jun 2024
- Status
- Ended
- Language
- English
- Network
- Paramount+
- Episodes
- 2
- Votes
- 9 on TMDB
Cast
RhymefestSelf - Artist
EminemSelf - Music Artist
Method ManSelf - Narrator (voice)- DDellSelf - CD Plant Employee/Pirating
